Spines groaned as she rode on Shining's back with a slightly bulging stomach, with Spike riding on Soarin's back. Spike made a 'tsk' sound as he commented. "That's what you get for eating twent five apple fritters sis." He chuckled as she groaned again. "But they were so taaaaaasssssty...." She whined as she tried to get up.
Shining looked over to Soarin, who was also chuckling at the little dragonesses food stuffed state. "What I don't get is how your were able to eat thirty apple pies and somehow not get a stomach ache." Soarin chuckled at Shining's observation. "Trade secret." He said back with a smirk.
Shining shook his head as he looked at the list again. "According to this, there's supposed twould pegasus ponie's named Flash Sentry and Rainbow Dash clearing the skies of clouds. Do those name's ring a bell?" Shining asked as Spines got off his back.
An orange stallion pegasus with a slicked back dark blue mane and a cutie mark of blue shield with a lighting bolt on it, was currently trying to do his job and clearing the skies for the celebration, which would have been done by now, if it wasn't for two things. One was that his little sister Scootaloo, an orange pegasus filly with a wild purple mane with no cutie mark, was currently riding on his back do to her inability to fly, so he had to go a little slower than usual in order to keep himself from dropping her.
Two, a certain rainbow maned pegasus mare was too busy practicing her moves instead of doing her job as his estatic sister wached her idol. "Come on Rainbow Dash! Someponies want to get these skies cleared before the inspector pony gets here!" He shouted impatiently. "Oh chill Flash, one more move and then I'll get to clearing those clouds!"
Though he wanted tell her to stop putting it off, he saw his sister giving him a pleading look. Flash sighed in defeat. "Fine, but one move and then you have to start clearing the skies. Got it?" He got his answer when his sister went 'Wooo!'
"Yeah yeah, now watch this!" Rainbow suddenly went for a head dive, not realizing there was a certain white coated stallion right in her line of fire.
Before Soarin could answer him, Shining was suddenly rammed into a nearby mud puddle by a blue blur, who also landed in the puddle. Rainbow shook her head, getting some of the mud out of her eyes. Now able to see, she turned to see a less than amused mud covered Shining Armor and chuckled sheepishly. "Heh...heh... sorry? Here, let me help you." She quickly dashed off and came back with rain cloud.
Hovering it over Shining, Rainbow began hopping on it, causing it to rain which, while it did remove the mud, completely soaked the recruit. Still chuckling a little, She commented. "Okay... now your all wet, but I can fix that too." She quickly whirled around him so fasr, it created a small that, while it dried him off, caused his fur and mane to puff out, making him look lIke a gain't wHite and blue ball of fluff.
Rainbow, Spike, Spines, and Soarin all began snickering, trying to hold in their laughter at Shining's appearance, until couldn't hold it in anymore and started laughing their flankes off. Though his sister was also laughing, Flash could only face hoof, since he was apparently the only one noticed the guard uniform the stallion was wearing.
Shining cleared his throat. "Well, if your all done laughing at my expense, I take it your Miss Rainbow Dash?" He asked maintaining a look of indifference. "Yeah, why? You heard of me?" She boasted only to get a silent stare. Shining sighed in annoyance. "Aren't you and another pegasus named Flash Sentry supposed to be clearing the skies?"
"That would be me." Flash had flown down with an annoyed look directed at Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow, can I speak to you privately, now?" Dash simply and flew with him to a nearby cloud, after he had set Scootaloo on a different cloud.
While Flash was busy lecturing Rainbow on looking where you were going while performing a stunt, Scootaloo felt the childish need to imitate her idol and prepared an attempt to perform what Rainbow just try to do. Having completely forgotten that she was too young to fly yet, she jumped off her perch on cloud and in the air for brief second remembering what she couldn't do.
"Uh oh...." She gulped as gravity finally took hold of her.
Flash's ear twitched as he heard a familiar voice scream before quickly turning around to find his sister plummeting toward the ground. His brother senses immediately kicked in and dove after her. The others on the ground heard the noise and saw the orange filly falling. Shining reacted faster than Soarin and quickly casted shield spell around the filly, completely stopping her fall.
Lowering her down to the ground, Shining dropped the spell and Scootaloo was immediately picked up by her panicked brother. "What were you thinking!? Your scared me half to death!" He scolded, but quickly stopped when he saw her tearing up, he quickly gave her a comforting hug. "It's alright...it's okay..., just promise you won't do something like that again." She nodded slowly.
Flash landed in front of Shining. "Thank you... how about we properly introduce ourselves. I'm the head of security at weather management Flash Sentry, and this little rascal..." He put a foreleg around her. "...is my younger sister Scootaloo. We also havery a brother named First Base, but he's at baseball practice." He held out a hoof.
Shining accepted it. "I'm Shining Armor, and your welcome. I have a little sister of my own and she's a bit of a bookworm and she has tendency to fall off of library ladders when she doesn't pay attention." He chuckled a little at the memories.
Flash chuckled a little before examining the armor Shining was currently wearing. "Are you by chance a member of the royal guard?" Shining was caught a little off guard by the question and noticed Flash was examining his armor closely. "Uh... not yet..., I'm still recruit and being taught by my mentor, Captain Star Sword, but hopefully that'll change when we finish overlooking the preparations for celebration tomorrow. Why do you ask?" He asked, curious as to why the stallion was so interested.
Flash realized what he was doing and quickly responded. "Oh...oh! Uh... nothing. Just a little curious. We'll get back to that cloud issue wrapped up here so your can go ahead on the next part of your list or something." He picked up Scootaloo and set her on his back and flew back up to the sky. Soarin looked to where they departed and saw there was a lot of clouds to clean up, and knowing Rainbow's tendency to be a little lazy, he made up his mind.
"Hey Shining, you think find your way around town by yourself? I'm going to go help those two with clearing the clouds the clouds." Shining shrugged his shoulders. "I'll manage." Soarin nodded and flew up into the sky.
"Alright, let's get going you two." Shining turned toward to the twins, only to find that Spines had fallen asleep on the ground from lethargy as her annoyed brother tried to wake her up. Rolling his eyes, Shining levitated Spines onto his back with magic and with Spike walking alongside him, they proceeded to the next item on the list.
Flash somewhat solemnly cleared the skies until his sister's voice caught his attention. "Flash, why didn't you ask him if you could join the Royal guard? That could have been your big chance!" She blurted out, her loud shout ringing in his ear a little.
"Because I'm pretty sure has more important things on his mind than having to deal with a wannabe royal guard begging him to let him join something like that." He sighed and continued working on clearing the clouds, much his sister's annoyance.